LiDAR based Digital Surface Model (DSM) data for South West England
This is a high resolution spatial dataset of Digital Surface Model (DSM) data in South West England. It is a part of outcomes from the CEH South West (SW) Project. There is also a Digital Terrain Model (DTM) dataset covering the same areas available from the SW project. Both DTM and DSM cover an area of 9424 km2 that includes all the land west of Exmouth (i.e. west of circa 3 degrees 21 minutes West). The DSM includes the height of features on the bare earth such as buildings or vegetation (if present). An overview of the TELLUS project is available on the web at
http://www.tellusgb.ac.uk/.
Full details about this dataset can be found at
https://doi.org/10.5285/b81071f2-85b3-4e31-8506-cabe899f989a
INSPIRE
Identification
- File identifier
- b81071f2-85b3-4e31-8506-cabe899f989a XML
- Resource type
- dataset
Online resource
Resource identifier
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Spatial representation type
- grid
Encoding
- Format
- ASCII grid
Projection
Classification of data and services
- Topic category
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- Elevation
Classification of data and services
Coupled resource
Coupled resource
Classification of data and services
Coupled resource
Coupled resource
Keywords
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- Elevation
Geographic coverage
N
S
E
W
Temporal reference
Temporal extent
Temporal extent
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2014-04-29
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2014-03-17
Quality and validity
- Lineage
- The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) acquired a new high resolution (circa 1 point/meter) and high accuracy (25 cm vertical) LiDAR dataset over Cornwall and Devon during the month of July and August 2013 for the Tellus South West project. The conversion of the raw LiDAR data into the digital terrain and surface model was carried out by the Environment Agency (contract). The spatial dataset consists of 2 cm height layers representing the terrain and surface height respectively at a spatial resolution of 1 m (grid cell) and an average height accuracy of 25 cm. The data is available as individual files representing sections of Ordnance Survey tiles in ESRI grid format (e.g. SX37ne; SX37nw; SX37se; SX37sw).
- Distance
- 1 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
Conformity
Conformity
Conformity
Conformity
Conformity
Conformity
Restrictions on access and use
- Access constraints
- Registration is required to access this data
- Access constraints
- If you reuse this data, you should cite: Ferraccioli, F., Gerard, F., Robinson, C., Jordan, T., Biszczuk, M., Ireland, L., Beasley, M., Vidamour, A., Barker, A., Arnold, R., Dinn, M., Fox, A., Howard, A. (2014). LiDAR based Digital Surface Model (DSM) data for South West England. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/b81071f2-85b3-4e31-8506-cabe899f989a
Responsible organization (s)
Contact for the resource
- Organisation name
- Centre for Hydrology & Ecology
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Natural Environment Research Council
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Natural Environment Research Council
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Natural Environment Research Council
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Natural Environment Research Council
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Natural Environment Research Council
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Natural Environment Research Council
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Natural Environment Research Council
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Natural Environment Research Council
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Natural Environment Research Council
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Natural Environment Research Council
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Natural Environment Research Council
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Natural Environment Research Council
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Natural Environment Research Council
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
Responsible organization (s)
Contact for the resource
- Organisation name
- Centre for Hydrology & Ecology
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Natural Environment Research Council
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Natural Environment Research Council
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Natural Environment Research Council
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Natural Environment Research Council
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Natural Environment Research Council
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Natural Environment Research Council
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Natural Environment Research Council
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Natural Environment Research Council
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Natural Environment Research Council
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Natural Environment Research Council
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Natural Environment Research Council
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Natural Environment Research Council
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Natural Environment Research Council
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
Metadata information
Contact for the metadata
- Organisation name
- NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
- info@eidc.ac.uk
- Metadata Date
- 2024-03-06T15:43:17
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- utf8